Event #69: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship Day 2 | 2022 World Series of Poker

07-03-2022 15:42 UTC-7

Assorted Counts and Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vivian Saliba	448,000	181,500
Ryan Franklin	415,000	116,000
Allan Le	375,000	45,000
Ashly Butler	280,000	-20,000
Ognjen Sekularac	250,000	96,000
Nai Hu	210,000	-38,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich	160,000	97,000
Luis Calvo	150,000
Dario Sammartino	100,000	34,000
Adrian Buckley	Busted
Laurids Nielsen	Busted
Anthony Zinno	Busted
Joseph Lamkin	Busted
Yashuo Chin	Busted
Brekstyn Schutten	Busted
Hanna Khalaf	Busted

07-03-2022 15:38 UTC-7

Lehr Folds to Taylor's Aggression

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Esther Taylor raised to 8,000 from an early position and Keith Lehr then potted to 27,000 with 31,500 behind. Taylor quickly piled in a tower of T-5,000 chips and that sent Lehr into the tank. He took off the glasses and glanced at his cards while Taylor jokingly flashed her four cards very quickly.

"This is my blind spot, I can't see," Lehr mentioned and Taylor grinned back "that's why I show them to you" (the cards were not visible by any means).

Ultimately, Lehr folded double-suited kings and Taylor exposed he .

Player	Chips	Progress
Esther Taylor	270,000	109,000
Keith Lehr	31,500	-28,500

Tags: Esther Taylor Keith Lehr

07-03-2022 15:35 UTC-7

Kruk Among the Big Stacks

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Christopher Kruk was one of several dozen late entrants and has already been able to run up a big stack in the opening stages of the day. He now sits on nearly seven times the starting stack while James Crowshaw and Joseph Leung on his former table have vanished.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Nehorayan	450,000	80,500
Christopher Kruk	410,000	350,000
Ian O'Hara	140,000	80,000
James Crowshaw	Busted
Joseph Leung	Busted

Tags: Christopher Kruk James Crowshaw Joseph Leung

07-03-2022 15:29 UTC-7

Haraldstad Hammering Away Early

Mike Patrick

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The seat to the left of Joachim Haraldstad has been a one-way ticket to the rail so far today.

Peter Levine had replaced Frank Kassela in that seat with Haralstad and his tablemates sharing the details of Kassela's elimination.

Haraldstad held middle set with on a flop while Kassela held and over 400,000 chips ended up in the middle with Haraldstad's set holding to eliminate Kassela.

Shortly after that, Levine found all of his roughly 25,000 chips in the middle preflop against Haraldstad.

Peter Levine:
Joachim Haraldstad:

The board ran out , with Haraldstad making a straight on the river to eliminate Levine and add another chunk to the biggest stack in the room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joachim Haraldstad	815,000	195,000
Frank Kassela	Busted
Peter Levine	Busted

Tags: Frank Kassela Joachim Haraldstad Peter Levine

07-03-2022 15:16 UTC-7

More Early Day 2 Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Hastings	Busted
Anderson Ireland	Busted
John Riordan	Busted
Rory Rees-Brennan	Busted
Jonathan Cole	Busted
Matt Glantz	Busted
Vincent Moscati	Busted

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

07-03-2022 15:12 UTC-7

Le Down to Start the day

Mike Patrick

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Defending Champion Tommy Le has had a slow start to the day, including dropping a recent pot.

After Davidi Kitai limped in early position, Le completed his small blind, and then Yarin Cohen raised to 8,500 from the big blind.

Both his opponents called and the trio saw a flop of . Le checked to Cohen who continued for 12,500. Kitai folded, but the defending champion called.

On the , he checked again and Cohen sized up to 29,000. Le didn't take long to fold and cede the pot to his opponent as his stack took another hit to start the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Le	325,000	-35,000
Yarin Cohen	197,000	47,000
Davidi Kitai	161,000	-14,000

Tags: Davidi Kitai Tommy Le Yarin Cohen

07-03-2022 15:12 UTC-7

Unusual Two Pair for Kyriakides

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Joining the action on the flop, Jarrett Hlavaty bet 8,000 on the button when checked to. Miltiadis Kyriakides in an early position and the Cypriot called. The turn brought another check-call worth 20,000 by Kariakides and the on the river was checked.

Hlavaty checked behind and Kyriakides announced two pair while rolling over the for quad sevens. Some laughter followed as David Cabrera joked "we gotta stop talking about football, I think we are annoying them."

Player	Chips	Progress
Miltiadis Kyriakides	375,000	100,000
David Cabrera	120,000	16,000
Jarrett Hlavaty	120,000	-87,500

Tags: David Cabrera Jarrett Hlavaty Miltiadis Kyriakides

07-03-2022 15:04 UTC-7

Updated Counts in the Field

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joachim Haraldstad	620,000	210,000
Conrad Fourie	540,000	165,500
George Wang	480,000	175,100
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	475,000	29,500
Patrick Leonard	370,000	28,000
Tommy Le	360,000	-40,000
Michael Duek	330,000	104,500
Ashly Butler	300,000	-48,500
Jared Jaffe	256,000	256,000
Nitesh Rawtani	240,000	-12,500
Toby Lewis	240,000	11,000
Anson Tsang	220,000	-40,500
Davidi Kitai	175,000	4,000
Bruno Fitoussi	175,000	110,000
Chris Brewer	150,000	90,000
Keith Ferrera	140,000	14,500
Matthew Wantman	140,000	-17,000
Eli Elezra	80,000	-25,500
Vincent Moscati	55,000	-11,000
Matt Waxman	45,000	-40,000
Phil Hellmuth	35,000	-25,000